Jennifer Carter

Jennifer Carter serves as a key procurement lead within the W074 Endist Jacksonville office of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, overseeing the acquisition of critical civil infrastructure and environmental engineering services across Florida’s coastal and inland waterways. Her role centers on executing complex contracts under the Department of the Army’s mission to sustain military readiness through hydraulic system maintenance, dredging, flood control, shoreline stabilization, and ecological restoration. She manages the full lifecycle of procurement actions for heavy civil engineering projects, ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations and alignment with strategic infrastructure priorities. Her acquisitions are primarily performance-based, requiring technical rigor in geotechnical, hydrologic, and environmental engineering deliverables. Carter maintains long-standing relationships with a core group of specialized contractors, including FINCANTIERI MARINE REPAIR LLC, GREAT LAKES DREDGE & DOCK CO, WEEKS MARINE, INC., MANSON CONSTRUCTION CO, and MCKENZIE CONSTRUCTION & SITE DEVELOPMENT LLC. These partnerships reflect a preference for firms with proven expertise in marine construction, dredging operations, and large-scale earthwork. Her contracting approach emphasizes contractor reliability, technical capability, and past performance in challenging aquatic environments, often resulting in repeat engagements and task order renewals under indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) mechanisms. Her procurement portfolio is predominantly open competition, with 75% of awards issued without set-asides, reflecting the scale and complexity of projects requiring specialized capabilities. However, she consistently allocates 25% of opportunities to total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5, demonstrating a deliberate commitment to expanding small business participation in high-value civil works contracts without compromising mission requirements. Carter’s work is exclusively focused on NAICS 237990—Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction—encompassing dredging, bulkhead installation, levee construction, wetland restoration, and navigation channel maintenance. Her technical domain expertise lies in managing contracts for large-scale hydraulic infrastructure, requiring deep understanding of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers design standards, environmental permitting frameworks, and marine construction methodologies.